The New Mithraeum Database

Fragmentary sandstone relief from Rückingen showing a male figure walking right and holding a kantharos. Traces on the chest may indicate a torques or shoulder-cape.

This lion-headed figure from Nida, present-day Frankfurt-Heddernheim, holds a key and a shovel in his hands.

Terracotta krater from the southern part of the Friedberg Mithraeum, discovered in 1849. The vessel is decorated in relief with serpents, a scorpion and a ladder-like motif.

There have probably been three mithraea discovered at Friedberg.

Statue of Cautes from Bodobrica, discovered around 1940, depicting the torchbearer standing before a tree or rock and associated with a bucranium.

The Mithraic vase from Ballplatz in Mainz depicts seven figures arranged in two narrative sequences, commonly interpreted in relation to initiation rites.

The image of Mithras killing the bull, found near Walbrook, is surrounded by a Zoadiac circle.

In the 1900s a model Mithraeum was built in Saalburg in the mistaken belief that there was an original temple of Mithras in an ancient Roman building.

This inscription commemorates the building of a mithraeum in Bremenium with fellow worshippers of Mithras.

The Stockstadt Raven is one of only two standing-alone sculptures of this bird to be found in Mithraic statuary.

This sculpture of Mithras being born from a rock is unique in the position of the hands, one on his head, the other on the rock.

This sculpture of Cautes holding a bull’s head was found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa, Romania.

These fragments of a monumental relief of Mithras killing the bull from Koenigshoffen were reassembled and are now on display at the Musée Archéologique de Strasbourg.

Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.

This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes various singular features specific to the Danubian area.

This remarkable marble statue of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum includes a unique dedication by its donor, featuring the rare term signum, seldom found in Mithraic contexts.

The large number of monuments found at the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa and the sheer size of the temple are unusual.

This remarkable double-sided relief depicts the myth of Mithras and the Tauroctony on one side, and a scene of Mithras the hunter and the banquet of Mithras and the Sol on the other.

A naked Mithra emerges from the cosmic egg surrounded by the zodiac, as always carrying a torch and a dagger.